[R-SIG-Mac] installing Lindsey's package on a mac

[Thomas Lumley]

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, David Orlovich wrote:

> Anne, I'm not sure about your specific package, but I'm wondering if
> you have the right privileges to install packages.  Does it work if you
> run R from the command line with sudo R - and then do the installation?

By default the installations in the Aqua GUI are to a local directory so
this is unlikely to be the problem.   You can find what the actual problem
is by looking at the Console log, in Applications | Utilities | Console.

	-thomas

> HTH, David.
>
> On 29/07/2004, at 6:42 AM, Anne G wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I went to
> > http://cran.us.r-project.org/other-software.htmlhttp://cran.us.r-
> > project.org/other-software.html
> > and then to
> > http://popgen0146uns50.unimaas.nl/~jlindsey/rcode.html
> > to download rmutil.tgz and gnlm.tgz.
> >
> > I have a mac OSX, 10.3.4, R 1.9.0
> > I decompress the two files, take out the makefile from the
> > scr directory.
> > then in the R menu, I choose
> > packages, install from local files, and then I select the
> > one of the folder on the desktop.
> > I get the error message
> > install.from.file(pkg="/Users/anne/Desktop/rmutil")
> > 	npackage installation failed
> >
> > Anyone has had that problem before and know how to fix it?
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > Anne
> >
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Thomas Lumley			Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley at u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle